You are migrating workloads to the cloud.

The goal of the migration is to serve customers

worldwide as quickly as possible According to local regulations, certain data is required to be
stored in a specific geographic area, and it can be served worldwide. You need to design the
architecture and deployment for your workloads.
What should you do?

 A. Select a public cloud provider that is only active in the required geographic area

 B. Select a private cloud provider that globally replicates data storage for fast data
access

 C. Select a public cloud provider that guarantees data location in the required
geographic area Most Voted

 D. Select a private cloud provider that is only active in the required geographic area

Your organization needs a large amount of extra computing power within the next two weeks.
After those two weeks, the need for the additional resources will end.
Which is the most cost-effective approach?

 A. Use a committed use discount to reserve a very powerful virtual machine

 B. Purchase one very powerful physical computer

 C. Start a very powerful virtual machine without using a committed use discount Most
Voted

 D. Purchase multiple physical computers and scale workload across them

Your organization needs to plan its cloud infrastructure expenditures.

Which should your organization do?

 A. Review cloud resource costs frequently, because costs change often based on
use Most Voted

 B. Review cloud resource costs annually as part of planning your organization's overall
budget

 C. If your organization uses only cloud resources, infrastructure costs are no longer part
of your overall budget Most Voted

 D. Involve fewer people in cloud resource planning than your organization did for on-
premises resource planning
The operating systems of some of your organization's virtual machines may have a security
vulnerability.
How can your organization most effectively identify all virtual machines that do not have the
latest security update?

 A. View the Security Command Center to identify virtual machines running vulnerable
disk images Most Voted

 B. View the Compliance Reports Manager to identify and download a recent PCI audit

 C. View the Security Command Center to identify virtual machines started more than 2
weeks ago

 D. View the Compliance Reports Manager to identify and download a recent SOC 1 audit

You are currently managing workloads running on Windows Server for which your company
owns the licenses. Your workloads are only needed during working hours, which allows you to
shut down the instances during the weekend. Your Windows Server licenses are up for renewal
in a month, and you want to optimize your license cost.
What should you do?

 A. Renew your licenses for an additional period of 3 years. Renew your licenses for an
additional period of 3 years. Negotiate a cost reduction with your current hosting
provider wherein infrastructure cost is reduced when workloads are not in use

 B. Renew your licenses for an additional period of 2 years. Negotiate a cost reduction
by committing to an automatic renewal of the licenses at the end of the 2 year period

 C. Migrate the workloads to Compute Engine with a bring-your-own-license (BYOL)

model Most Voted

 D. Migrate the workloads to Compute Engine with a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model Most

Voted

Your organization runs a distributed application in the Compute Engine virtual machines. Your
organization needs redundancy, but it also needs extremely fast communication (less than 10
milliseconds) between the parts of the application in different virtual machines.
Where should your organization locate this virtual machines?

 A. In a single zone within a single region

 B. In different zones within a single region Most Voted

 C. In multiple regions, using one zone per region

  D. In multiple regions, using multiple zones per region

An organization decides to migrate their on-premises environment to the cloud. They need to
determine which resource components still need to be assigned ownership.
Which two functions does a public cloud provider own? (Choose two.)

 A. Hardware maintenance

 B. Infrastructure architecture

 C. Infrastructure deployment automation

 D. Hardware capacity management

 E. Fixing application security issues

You are a program manager within a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that offers
rendering software for animation studios. Your team needs the ability to allow scenes to be
scheduled at will and to be interrupted at any time to restart later. Any individual scene
rendering takes less than 12 hours to complete, and there is no service-level agreement (SLA)
for the completion time for all scenes. Results will be stored in a global Cloud Storage bucket.
The compute resources are not bound to any single geographical location. This software needs
to run on Google Cloud in a cost-optimized way.
What should you do?

 A. Deploy the application on Compute Engine using preemptible instances Most Voted

 B. Develop the application so it can run in an unmanaged instance group

 C. Create a reservation for the minimum number of Compute Engine instances you will
use

 D. Start more instances with fewer virtual centralized processing units (vCPUs) instead
of fewer instances with more vCPUs

Your manager wants to restrict communication of all virtual machines with internet access;
with resources in another network; or with a resource outside Compute
Engine. It is expected that different teams will create new folders and projects in the near
future.
How would you restrict all virtual machines from having an external IP address?
  A. Define an organization policy at the root organization node to restrict virtual machine
instances from having an external IP address Most Voted

 B. Define an organization policy on all existing folders to define a constraint to restrict

virtual machine instances from having an external IP address

 C. Define an organization policy on all existing projects to restrict virtual machine

instances from having an external IP address

 D. Communicate with the different teams and agree that each time a virtual machine is
created, it must be configured without an external IP address

Your multinational organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on its premises
around the world. You want to be able to manage these workloads consistently and centrally,
and you want to stop managing infrastructure.
What should your organization do?

 A. Migrate the workloads to a public cloud Most Voted

 B. Migrate the workloads to a central office building

 C. Migrate the workloads to multiple local co-location facilities

 D. Migrate the workloads to multiple local private clouds

Your organization stores highly sensitive data on-premises that cannot be sent over the public
internet. The data must be processed both on-premises and in the cloud.
What should your organization do?

 A. Configure Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) in your Google Cloud VPC network

 B. Create a Cloud VPN tunnel between Google Cloud and your data center

 C. Order a Partner Interconnect connection with your network provider Most Voted

 D. Enable Private Google Access in your Google Cloud VPC network

Your company's development team is building an application that will be deployed on Cloud
Run. You are designing a CI/CD pipeline so that any new version of the application can be
deployed in the fewest number of steps possible using the CI/CD pipeline you are designing.
You need to select a storage location for the images of the application after the CI part of your
pipeline has built them.
What should you do?

 A. Create a Compute Engine image containing the application

 B. Store the images in Container Registry Most Voted

 C. Store the images in Cloud Storage

 D. Create a Compute Engine disk containing the application

Each of the three cloud service models - infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service
(PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) - offers benefits between flexibility and levels of
management by the cloud provider and the customer.
Why would SaaS be the right choice of service model?

 A. You want a balance between flexibility for the customer and the level of management
by the cloud provider

 B. You want to minimize the level of management by the customer Most Voted

 C. You want to maximize flexibility for the customer.

 D. You want to be able to shift your emphasis between flexibility and management by
the cloud provider as business needs change

As your organization increases its release velocity, the VM-based application upgrades take a
long time to perform rolling updates due to OS boot times. You need to make the application
deployments faster.
What should your organization do?

 A. Migrate your VMs to the cloud, and add more resources to them

 B. Convert your applications into containers Most Voted

 C. Increase the resources of your VMs

 D. Automate your upgrade rollouts

Your organization uses Active Directory to authenticate users. Users' Google account access
must be removed when their Active Directory account is terminated.
How should your organization meet this requirement?
  A. Configure two-factor authentication in the Google domain

 B. Remove the Google account from all IAM policies

 C. Configure BeyondCorp and Identity-Aware Proxy in the Google domain

 D. Configure single sign-on in the Google domain Most Voted

Your company has recently acquired three growing startups in three different countries. You
want to reduce overhead in infrastructure management and keep your costs low without
sacrificing security and quality of service to your customers.
How should you meet these requirements?

 A. Host all your subsidiaries' services on-premises together with your existing services.

 B. Host all your subsidiaries' services together with your existing services on the public
cloud. Most Voted

 C. Build a homogenous infrastructure at each subsidiary, and invest in training their

engineers.

 D. Build a homogenous infrastructure at each subsidiary, and invest in hiring more

engineers.

What is the difference between Standard and Coldline storage?

 A. Coldline storage is for data for which a slow transfer rate is acceptable.

 B. Standard and Coldline storage have different durability guarantees.

 C. Standard and Coldline storage use different APIs.

 D. Coldline storage is for infrequently accessed data. Most Voted

What would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without requiring your
organization to procure and provision new equipment?

 A. Public cloud Most Voted

 B. Containers

 C. Private cloud
  D. Microservices

You are a program manager for a team of developers who are building an event-driven
application to allow users to follow one another's activities in the app. Each time a user adds
himself as a follower of another user, a write occurs in the real-time database.
The developers will develop a lightweight piece of code that can respond to database writes
and generate a notification to let the appropriate users know that they have gained new
followers. The code should integrate with other cloud services such as Pub/Sub, Firebase, and
Cloud APIs to streamline the orchestration process. The application requires a platform that
automatically manages underlying infrastructure and scales to zero when there is no activity.
Which primary compute resource should your developers select, given these requirements?

 A. Google Kubernetes Engine

 B. Cloud Functions Most Voted

 C. App Engine flexible environment

 D. Compute Engine

Your organization is developing an application that will capture a large amount of data from
millions of different sensor devices spread all around the world. Your organization needs a
database that is suitable for worldwide, high-speed data storage of a large amount of
unstructured data.
Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose?

 A. Firestore

 B. Cloud Data Fusion

 C. Cloud SQL

 D. Cloud Bigtable Most Voted

Your organization needs to build streaming data pipelines. You don't want to manage the
individual servers that do the data processing in the pipelines. Instead, you want a managed
service that will automatically scale with the amount of data to be processed.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization choose?

 A. Pub/Sub

 B. Dataflow Most Voted
  C. Data Catalog

 D. Dataprep by Trifacta

Your organization is building an application running in Google Cloud. Currently, software builds,
tests, and regular deployments are done manually, but you want to reduce work for the team.
Your organization wants to use Google Cloud managed solutions to automate your build,
testing, and deployment process.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?

 A. Cloud Scheduler

 B. Cloud Code

 C. Cloud Build Most Voted

 D. Cloud Deployment Manager

Which Google Cloud product can report on and maintain compliance on your entire Google
Cloud organization to cover multiple projects?

 A. Cloud Logging

 B. Identity and Access Management

 C. Google Cloud Armor

 D. Security Command Center

Your organization needs to establish private network connectivity between its on-premises
network and its workloads running in Google Cloud. You need to be able to set up the
connection as soon as possible.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should you use?

 A. Cloud Interconnect

 B. Direct Peering

 C. Cloud VPN Most Voted

 D. Cloud CDN
Your organization is developing a mobile app and wants to select a fully featured cloud-based
compute platform for it.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?

 A. Google Kubernetes Engine

 B. Firebase Most Voted

 C. Cloud Functions

 D. App Engine Most Voted

Your company has been using a shared facility for data storage and will be migrating to Google
Cloud. One of the internal applications uses Linux custom images that need to be migrated.
Which Google Cloud product should you use to maintain the custom images?

 A. App Engine flexible environment

 B. Compute Engine Most Voted

 C. App Engine standard environment

 D. Google Kubernetes Engine

Your organization wants to migrate its data management solutions to Google Cloud because it
needs to dynamically scale up or down and to run transactional
SQL queries against historical data at scale. Which Google Cloud product or service should
your organization use?

 A. BigQuery

 B. Cloud Bigtable

 C. Pub/Sub

 D. Cloud Spanner Most Voted

Your organization needs to categorize objects in a large group of static images using machine
learning. Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?

 A. BigQuery ML

 B. AutoML Video Intelligence

  C. Cloud Vision API Most Voted

 D. AutoML Tables

Your organization runs all its workloads on Compute Engine virtual machine instances. Your
organization has a security requirement: the virtual machines are not allowed to access the
public internet. The workloads running on those virtual machines need to access BigQuery and
Cloud Storage, using their publicly accessible interfaces, without violating the security
requirement.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?

 A. Identity-Aware Proxy

 B. Cloud NAT (network address translation)

 C. VPC internal load balancers

 D. Private Google Access Most Voted

Which Google Cloud product is designed to reduce the risks of handling personally identifiable
information (PII)?

 A. Cloud Storage

 B. Google Cloud Armor

 C. Cloud Data Loss Prevention Most Voted

 D. Secret Manager

Your organization is migrating to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to move
terabytes of data from on-premises file servers to Cloud Storage. Your organization wants the
migration process to be automated and to be managed by Google. Your organization has an
existing Dedicated Interconnect connection that it wants to use. Which Google Cloud product or
feature should your organization use?

 A. Storage Transfer Service Most Voted

 B. Migrate for Anthos

 C. BigQuery Data Transfer Service

 D. Transfer Appliance
Your organization needs to analyze data in order to gather insights into its daily operations.
You only want to pay for the data you store and the queries you perform. Which Google Cloud
product should your organization choose for its data analytics warehouse?

 A. Cloud SQL

 B. Dataproc

 C. Cloud Spanner

 D. BigQuery Most Voted

Your organization wants to run a container-based application on Google Cloud. This application
is expected to increase in complexity. You have a security need for fine-grained control of
traffic between the containers. You also have an operational need to exercise fine-grained
control over the application's scaling policies.
What Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?

 A. Google Kubernetes Engine cluster Most Voted

 B. App Engine

 C. Cloud Run

 D. Compute Engine virtual machines

Which Google Cloud product or feature makes specific recommendations based on security
risks and compliance violations?

 A. Google Cloud firewalls

 B. Security Command Center Most Voted

 C. Cloud Deployment Manager

 D. Google Cloud Armor

Which Google Cloud product provides a consistent platform for multi-cloud application
deployments and extends other Google Cloud services to your organization's environment?

 A. Google Kubernetes Engine

 B. Virtual Public Cloud

  C. Compute Engine

 D. Anthos

Your organization is developing an application that will manage payments and online bank
accounts located around the world. The most critical requirement for your database is that
each transaction is handled consistently. Your organization anticipates almost unlimited
growth in the amount of data stored.
Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose?

 A. Cloud SQL

 B. Cloud Storage

 C. Firestore

 D. Cloud Spanner 

Your organization wants an economical solution to store data such as files, graphical images,
and videos and to access and share them securely.
Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?

 A. Cloud Storage Most Voted

 B. Cloud SQL

 C. Cloud Spanner

 D. BigQuery

Your organization wants to predict the behavior of visitors to its public website. To do that, you
have decided to build a machine learning model. Your team has database-related skills but only
basic machine learning skills, and would like to use those database skills.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization choose?

 A. BigQuery ML Most Voted

 B. LookML

 C. TensorFlow

 D. Cloud SQL
Your organization needs to restrict access to a Cloud Storage bucket. Only employees who are
based in Canada should be allowed to view the contents.
What is the most effective and efficient way to satisfy this requirement?

 A. Deploy the Cloud Storage bucket to a Google Cloud region in Canada

 B. Configure Google Cloud Armor to allow access to the bucket only from IP addresses
based in Canada

 C. Give each employee who is based in Canada access to the bucket

 D. Create a group consisting of all Canada-based employees, and give the group
access to the bucket

Your organization is moving an application to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to
migrate the application's working database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. The
database runs on the MySQL engine. The migration must cause minimal disruption to users.
Data must be secured while in transit.
Which should your organization use?

 A. BigQuery Data Transfer Service

 B. MySQL batch insert

 C. Database Migration Service Most Voted

 D. Cloud Composer

Your organization is developing and deploying an application on Google Cloud. Tracking your
Google Cloud spending needs to stay as simple as possible.
What should you do to ensure that workloads in the development environment are fully isolated
from production workloads?

 A. Apply a unique tag to development resources

 B. Associate the development resources with their own network

 C. Associate the development resources with their own billing account

 D. Put the development resources in their own project Most Voted

Your company is running the majority of its workloads in a co-located data center. The
workloads are running on virtual machines (VMs) on top of a hypervisor and use either Linux or
Windows server editions. As part of your company's transformation strategy, you need to
modernize workloads as much as possible by adopting cloud-native technologies. You need to
migrate the workloads into Google Cloud.
What should you do?

 A. Export the VMs into VMDK format, and import them into Compute Engine

 B. Export the VMs into VMDK format, and import them into Google Cloud VMware
Engine

 C. Migrate the workloads using Migrate for Compute Engine

 D. Migrate the workloads using Migrate for Anthos Most Voted

Your organization is running all its workloads in a private cloud on top of a hypervisor. Your
organization has decided it wants to move to Google Cloud as quickly as possible. Your
organization wants minimal changes to the current environment, while using the maximum
amount of managed services Google offers.
What should your organization do?

 A. Migrate the workloads to Google Cloud VMware Engine

 B. Migrate the workloads to Compute Engine

 C. Migrate the workloads to Bare Metal Solution

 D. Migrate the workloads to Google Kubernetes Engine

Your organization is releasing its first publicly available application in Google Cloud. The
application is critical to your business and customers and requires a 2- hour SLA.
How should your organization set up support to minimize costs?

 A. Enroll in Premium Support

 B. Enroll in Enhanced Support Most Voted

 C. Enroll in Standard Support

 D. Enroll in Basic Support

Your organization offers public mobile apps and websites. You want to migrate to a Google
Cloud-based solution for checking and maintaining your users' usernames and passwords and
controlling their access to different resources based on their identity.
Which should your organization choose?

 A. VPN tunnels

 B. Identity Platform

 C. Compute Engine firewall rules

 D. Private Google Access

Which Google Cloud service or feature lets you build machine learning models using Standard
SQL and data in a data warehouse?

 A. BigQuery ML

 B. TensorFlow

 C. AutoML Tables

 D. Cloud Bigtable ML

Your organization runs an application on virtual machines in Google Cloud. This application
processes incoming images. This activity takes hours to create a result for each image. The
workload for this application normally stays at a certain baseline level, but at regular intervals it
spikes to a much greater workload.
Your organization needs to control the cost to run this application.
What should your organization do?

 A. Purchase committed use discounts for the baseline load Most Voted

 B. Purchase committed use discounts for the expected spike load

 C. Leverage sustained use discounts for your virtual machines Most Voted

 D. Run the workload on preemptible VM instances

Your organization is developing a plan for migrating to Google Cloud.

What is a best practice when initially configuring your Google Cloud environment?

 A. Create a project via Google Cloud Console per department in your company

 B. Define your resource hierarchy with an organization node on top

  C. Create projects based on team members' requests

 D. Make every member of your company the project owner

Your organization runs many workloads in different Google Cloud projects, each linked to the
same billing account. Each project's workload costs can vary from month to month, but the
overall combined cost of all projects is relatively stable. Your organization needs to optimize
its cost.
What should your organization do?

 A. Purchase a commitment per project for each project's usual minimum

 B. Create a billing account per project, and link each project to a different billing
account

 C. Turn on committed use discount sharing, and create a commitment for the combined
usage

 D. Move all workloads from all different projects into one single consolidated project

How should a multinational organization that is migrating to Google Cloud consider security
and privacy regulations to ensure that it is in compliance with global standards?

 A. Comply with data security and privacy regulations in each geographical region Most
Voted
 B. Comply with regional standards for data security and privacy, because they
supersede all international regulations
 C. Comply with international standards for data security and privacy, because they
supersede all regional regulations
 D. Comply with regional data security regulations, because they're more complex than
privacy standards

Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud's discounts on virtual machine-
based workloads. You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast
that spikes of up to 300 CPUs will occur approximately 30% of the time. What should you
choose?

 A. 1-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs

 B. 3-year committed use discount for 300 CPUs

 C. 3-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs Most Voted

  D. Regular pay-as-you-go pricing

Your organization needs to minimize how much it pays for data traffic from the Google network
to the internet. What should your organization do?

 A. Choose the Standard network service tier. Most Voted

 B. Choose the Premium network service tier.

 C. Deploy Cloud VPN.

 D. Deploy Cloud NAT.

Your organization wants to migrate your on-premises environment to Google Cloud. The on-
premises environment consists of containers and virtual machine instances. Which Google
Cloud products can help to migrate the container images and the virtual machine disks?

 A. Compute Engine and Filestore Most Voted

 B. Artifact Registry and Cloud Storage Most Voted

 C. Dataflow and BigQuery

 D. Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage

Your company security team manages access control to production systems using an LDAP
directory group.
How is this access control managed in the Google Cloud production project?

 A. Assign the proper role to the Service Account in the project's IAM Policy

 B. Grant each user the roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role on a service account that

exists in the Google Group.

 C. Assign the proper role to the Google Group in the project's IAM Policy. Most Voted

 D. Create the project in a folder with the same name as the LDAP directory group.

Your organization wants to be sure that is expenditures on cloud services are in line with the
budget. Which two Google Cloud cost management features help your organization gain greater
visibility into its cloud resource costs? (Choose two.)

 A. Billing dashboards Most Voted

  B. Resource labels Most Voted

 C. Sustained use discounts

 D. Financial governance policies

 E. Payments profile

Your organization needs to process large amounts of data from an online application that
operates continuously. You do not want to be required to provision infrastructure or create
server clusters. What should your organization choose?

 A. Compute Engine with BigQuery

 B. Dataproc

 C. Google Kubernetes Engine with Cloud Bigtable

 D. Dataflow Most Voted

Your organization needs to ensure that the Google Cloud resources of each of your
departments are segregated from one another. Each department has several environments of
its own: development, testing, and production. Which strategy should your organization
choose?

 A. Create a project per department, and create a folder per environment in each project.
 B. Create a folder per department, and create a project per environment in each
folder. Most Voted
 C. Create a Cloud Identity domain per department, and create a project per environment
in each domain.
 D. Create a Cloud Identity domain per environment, and create a project per department
in each domain.

Your organization is defining the resource hierarchy for its new application in Google Cloud.
You need separate development and production environments. The production environment will
be deployed in Compute Engine in two regions. Which structure should your organization
choose?

 A. Create a single project for all environments. Use labels to segregate resources by
environment.

 B. Create a single project for all environments. Use tags to segregate resources by
environment.
  C. Create one project for the development environment and one project for the
production environment. Most Voted

 D. Create two projects for the development environment and two projects for the
production environment (one for each region).

Your organization meant to purchase a 3-year Committed Use Discount, but accidentally
purchased a 1-year Committed Use Discount instead. What should your organization do?

 A. Contact your financial institution.

 B. Contact Trust and Safety.

 C. Contact Cloud Billing Support. Most Voted

 D. Contact Technical Support.

Your organization needs to allow a production job to have access to a BigQuery dataset. The
production job is running on a Compute Engine instance that is part of an instance group.
What should be included in the IAM Policy on the BigQuery dataset?

 A. The Compute Engine instance group

 B. The project that owns the Compute Engine instance

 C. The Compute Engine service account Most Voted

 D. The Compute Engine instance

Your team is publishing research results and needs to make large amounts of data available to
other researchers within the professional community and the public at minimum cost.
How should you host the data?

 A. Use a Cloud Storage bucket and enable ‫ג‬€Requester Pays.‫ג‬€ Most Voted

 B. Use a Cloud Storage bucket and provide Signed URLs for the data files. Most Voted

 C. Use a Cloud Storage bucket and set up a Cloud Interconnect connection to allow
access to the data.

 D. Host the data on-premises, and set up a Cloud Interconnect connection to allow
access to the data.
Your company needs to segment Google Cloud resources used by each team from the others.
The teams' efforts are changing frequently, and you need to reduce operational risk and
maintain cost visibility. Which approach does Google recommend?

 A. One project per team.

 B. One organization per team.

 C. One project that contains all of each team's resources.

 D. One top-level folder per team. Most Voted

How do Migrate for Compute Engine and Migrate for Anthos differ?

 A. Unlike Migrate for Anthos, Migrate for Compute Engine assumes that the migration
source is VMware vSphere.

 B. Migrate for Compute Engine charges for ingress, but Migrate for Anthos does not.

 C. Migrate for Compute Engine is closed source, and Migrate for Anthos is open source.

 D. Migrate for Anthos migrates to containers, and Migrate for Compute Engine migrates
to virtual machines. Most Voted

Your large and frequently changing organization's user information is stored in an on-premises
LDAP database. The database includes user passwords and group and organization
membership.
How should your organization provision Google accounts and groups to access Google Cloud
resources?

 A. Replicate the LDAP infrastructure on Compute Engine

 B. Use the Firebase Authentication REST API to create users

 C. Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to create users

 D. Use the Identity Platform REST API to create users

Your organization consists of many teams. Each team has many Google Cloud projects. Your
organization wants to simplify the management of identity and access policies for these
projects.
How can you group these projects to meet this goal?
  A. Group each team's projects into a separate domain

 B. Assign labels based on the virtual machines that are part of each team's projects

 C. Use folders to group each team's projects Most Voted

 D. Group each team's projects into a separate organization node

An organization needs to categorize text-based customer reviews on their website using a pre-
trained machine learning model.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

 A. Cloud Natural Language API Most Voted

 B. Dialogflow

 C. Recommendations AI

 D. TensorFlow

An organization is planning its cloud expenditure.

What should the organization do to control costs?

 A. Consider cloud resource costs as capital expenditure in annual planning.

 B. Use only cloud resources; they have no cloud infrastructure costs.

 C. Review cloud resource costs frequently because costs depend on usage.

 D. Assess cloud resources costs only when SLO is not met by their cloud provider.

An organization is searching for an open-source machine learning platform to build and deploy
their own custom machine learning applications using TPUs.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

 A. TensorFlow Most Voted

 B. BigQuery ML

 C. Vision API

 D. AutoML Vision
What is an example of unstructured data that organizations can capture from social media?

 A. Post comments Most Voted

 B. Tagging

 C. Profile picture

 D. Location

An organization relies on online seasonal sales for the majority of their annual revenue.
Why should the organization use App Engine for their customer app?

 A. Automatically adjusts physical inventory in real time

 B. Autoscales during peaks in demand Most Voted

 C. Runs maintenance during seasonal sales

 D. Recommends the right products to customers

An organization is using machine learning to make predictions. One of their datasets

mistakenly includes mislabeled data.
How will the prediction be impacted?

 A. Increased risk of privacy leaks

 B. Increased risk of inaccuracy

 C. Decreased model compatibility

 D. Decreased model training time

A global organization is developing an application to manage payments and online bank

accounts in multiple regions. Each transaction must be handled consistently in their database,
and they anticipate almost unlimited growth in the amount of data stored.
Which Google Cloud product should the organization choose?

 A. Cloud SQL

 B. Cloud Spanner

 C. Cloud Storage
  D. BigQuery

An organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on-premises around the world.
They want to modernize their infrastructure with a multi-cloud architecture.
What benefit could the organization experience?

 A. Ability to disable regional network connectivity during cyber attacks

 B. Ability to keep backups of their data on-premises in case of failure

 C. Full management access to their regional infrastructure

 D. Reduced likelihood of system failure during high demand events

An organization needs to run frequent updates for their business app.

Why should the organization use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?

 A. Customer expectations can be adjusted without using marketing tools

 B. Seamless changes can be made without causing any application downtime. Most

Voted

 C. GKE handles version control seamlessly and out of the box

 D. GKE is well suited for all monolithic applications

An organization wants to use Apigee to manage all their application programming interfaces
(APIs).
What will Apigee enable the organization to do?

 A. Increase application privacy

 B. Measure and track API performance Most Voted

 C. Analyze application development speed

 D. Market and sell APIs

An e-commerce organization is reviewing their cloud data storage.

What type of raw data can they store in a relational database without any processing?

 A. Product inventory
  B. Product photographs

 C. Instructional videos

 D. Customer chat history

A hotel wants to modernize their legacy systems so that customers can make reservations
through a mobile app.
What's the benefit of using an application programming interface (API) to do this?

 A. They do not have to develop the end-user application

 B. They can deprecate their legacy systems

 C. They can transform their systems to be cloud-native

 D. They do not have to rewrite the legacy system

An organization wants to digitize and share large volumes of historical text and images.
Why is a public cloud a better option than an on-premises solution?

 A. In-house hardware management

 B. Provides physical encryption key

 C. Cost-effective at scale

 D. Optimizes capital expenditure

An organization wants to develop an application that can be personalized to user preferences

throughout the year.
Why should they build a cloud-native application instead of modernizing their existing on-
premises application?

 A. Developers can rely on the cloud provider for all source code

 B. Developers can launch new features in an agile way

 C. IT managers can migrate existing application architecture without needing updates

 D. IT managers can accelerate capital expenditure planning

Which technology allows organizations to run multiple computer operating systems on a single
piece of physical hardware?
  A. Hypervisor

 B. Containers

 C. Serverless computing

 D. Open source

An organization is making a strategic change to customer support in response to feedback.

They plan to extend their helpline availability hours.
Why is the organization making this change?

 A. Users expect professional expertise

 B. Users require personalization

 C. Users expect always-on services

 D. Users require regional access

An organization is migrating their business applications from on-premises to the cloud.

How could this impact their operations and personnel costs?

 A. Reduced on-premises infrastructure management costs Most Voted

 B. Increased on-premises hardware maintenance costs

 C. Reduced cloud software licensing costs

 D. Increased cloud hardware management costs

A retail company stores their product inventory in a legacy system. Often, customers find
products on the company's website and want to purchase them in-store.
However, when they arrive, they discover that the products are out of stock.
How could the company benefit from using an application programming interface (API)?

 A. To create personalized product recommendations for customers

 B. To optimize their on-premises legacy system stability

 C. By manually linking each inventory system to the website on a case-by-case basis

 D. By programmatically connecting the inventory system to their website Most Voted

An organization is training a machine learning model to predict extreme weather events in their
country.
How should they collect data to maximize prediction accuracy?

 A. Collect all weather data evenly across all cities Most Voted

 B. Collect all weather data primarily from at-risk cities

 C. Collect extreme weather data evenly across all cities

 D. Collect extreme weather data primarily from at-risk cities

An organization needs to search an application's source code to identify a potential issue. The
application is distributed across multiple containers.
Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?

 A. Google Cloud Console

 B. Cloud Trace Most Voted

 C. Cloud Monitoring

 D. Cloud Logging

An organization's web developers and operations personnel use different systems.

How will increasing communication between the teams reduce issues caused by silos?

 A. By assigning blame for failures and establishing consequences

 B. By combining job role responsibilities to ensure that everyone has shared access

 C. By increasing data encryption to strengthen workflows

 D. By emphasizing shared ownership of business outcomes

How does a large hotel chain benefit from storing their customer reservation data in the cloud?

 A. On-premises hardware access to transaction data

 B. Real-time data transformation at scale within an on-premises database

 C. Real-time business transaction accuracy at scale

  D. Physical hardware access during peak demand

An organization wants to migrate legacy applications currently hosted in their data center to
the cloud. The current architecture dictates that each application needs its own operating
system (OS) instead of sharing an OS.
Which infrastructure solution should they choose?

 A. Virtual machines Most Voted

 B. Open source

 C. Serverless computing

 D. Containers

An organization operates their entire IT infrastructure from Google Cloud.

What should they do to prepare for data breaches?

 A. Reduce reliance on multi-factor authentication

 B. Data security is Google's responsibility, so preparation is minimal

 C. Create an incident plan to mitigate impacts Most Voted

 D. Strengthen their data center perimeter security

An organization wants to transform multiple types of structured and unstructured data in the
cloud from various sources. The data must be readily accessible for analysis and insights.
Which cloud data storage system should the organization use?

 A. Relational database

 B. Private data center

 C. Data field

 D. Data warehouse

An organization wants to use all available data to offer predictive suggestions on their website
that improve over time.
Which method should the organization use?

 A. Data automation
  B. Trends analysis

 C. Machine learning

 D. Multiple regression

After rolling out a new update, an organization found a minor bug in its online video game.
How should the organization approach this bug while following SRE principles?

 A. Accept and learn from the bug because failure is normal Most Voted

 B. Accept and ignore the bug because it is only minor

 C. Hold a postmortem to reprimand the employee responsible for the bug

 D. Document bug correction to eliminate all future bugs

Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?

 A. Scaling compute instances could breach compliance and/or regulation

 B. Increasing compute capacity is time-consuming and costly Most Voted

 C. Their serverless compute functions struggle to meet the demand

 D. Their multi-cloud architecture is complex and expensive

An organization wants to use BigQuery data analytics to understand their website performance,
but wants to move only some data into the cloud.
Which environment should the organization use?

 A. Private cloud

 B. On-premises

 C. Multi-cloud

 D. Hybrid cloud Most Voted

What is logging within the context of cloud technology?

 A. Writing application and operating system events as text

  B. Monitoring network and resource limitations

 C. Tracking source code across an organization

 D. Recording infrastructure and hardware expenditure

How does Cloud SQL help organizations create business insights?

 A. Integrates with business intelligence and analytics platforms

 B. Generates predictions using machine learning models

 C. Generates real-time charts and intelligent analytics

 D. Transforms business data from unstructured to structured

An organization recently launched a virtual customer support agent, generating vast amounts
of text and speech data.
Why should they use a cloud data warehouse to interpret this data?

 A. To natively visualize both types of data using a dashboard in real time

 B. To ingest and analyze structured and unstructured data at scale, in real time

 C. To secure data transmission between cloud and on-premises environments

 D. To transform data from structured to unstructured

An organization wants to add a new function to their application. They want to write the code
and let the public cloud provider handle the infrastructure.
Which infrastructure solution should they use?

 A. Virtual machines

 B. Bare Metal Solution

 C. Serverless computing Most Voted

 D. Container Registry

An organization wants to leverage tooling and automation as part of its new DevOps
philosophy.
Which operational challenge will this resolve?
  A. Repetitive manual tasks that hinder workflows

 B. Time-consuming supervision of creative tasks

 C. Distribution and supply-chain issues

 D. Defective technical equipment that limits innovation

An organization needs to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in its raw,
native format in the same repository.
Which cloud data management solution should the organization use?

 A. Data field

 B. Data lake

 C. Database

 D. Data warehouse

An organization wants its users to validate a series of new features for their app.
Why should they use App Engine?

 A. Because their app is containerized and enabled by microservices

 B. Because the updated app will only include new features

 C. To run different versions of the app for different users

 D. To run different versions of the app for the same user

How would an organization benefit from using Looker?

 A. Optimal identity and access management

 B. Leading serverless warehousing technology

 C. Robust data roll-back accuracy

 D. Advanced business intelligence and analytics

An organization delivers a proactive healthcare service. They want to efficiently and
automatically collect patient data.
What should the organization encourage the patients to do?

 A. Use at-home health screening devices and then upload their health data daily

 B. Wear Internet of Things (IoT) devices that upload their health data in real time

 C. Self-assess their health data and then document and upload it in real time

 D. Visit a nurse who will use Internet of Things (IoT) devices to collect and upload their
health data

How would a global organization benefit from managing their data with Cloud Spanner?

 A. Cloud Spanner is optimized for cold storage

 B. Cloud Spanner replicates data across regions in real time

 C. Cloud Spanner is optimized to ingest unstructured data

 D. Cloud Spanner visualizes and analyzes data in real time

An employee receives an email from their internet service provider asking for their bank
account number and password.
Which cybersecurity threat is this?

 A. Ransomware

 B. Distributed Denial of Service

 C. Spamming

 D. Phishing

An organization wants to move from a tactical cloud adoption approach to a transformational

approach.
How should they adapt the way they lead the organization?

 A. Increase top-down visibility and foster a culture of blamelessness

 B. Shift from an operational expenditure model to capital expenditure

  C. Drive cloud adoption with an individual contributor focus

 D. Invest in on-premises infrastructure to redesign relationships between IT and

employees

Why is data stored in Google Cloud secure and private?

 A. Data is encrypted by the Security Command Center

 B. Data is encrypted by Cloud Data Loss Prevention

 C. Data is encrypted by default

 D. Data is encrypted when an appropriate tag is applied

An organization wants to use multiple marketing datasets to forecast user acquisition.

How should they use cloud technology to gain new insights from the data?

 A. Import the datasets into a custom data warehouse, and then archive old data

 B. Import and selectively archive the datasets in a custom data lake

 C. Separate the datasets and make predictions using machine learning

 D. Combine the datasets and make predictions using machine learning

An organization wants to collect metrics and metadata from their cloud applications and put
them into dashboards.
Which Google Cloud tool should they use?

 A. Cloud Monitoring

 B. Cloud Trace

 C. Cloud Logging

 D. Cloud Debugger

A manager wants to review Google Cloud data access among their employees.
Who is responsible for defining data access policies?

 A. Cloud Identity
  B. Google Cloud Customer Care team

 C. Their organization's IT team Most Voted

 D. Their organization's end users

An organization has decided to modernize their applications in the cloud to keep up with their
customers' needs.
What may have prompted this business decision?

 A. Their on-premises applications only autoscale to meet demand.

 B. They want to change from a pay-as-you-go model to a capital expenditure model.

 C. Their source code changes erroneously without developer interaction.

 D. Their on-premises applications take months to update and deploy.

An organization needs to categorize a large group of photographs using pre-trained machine

learning.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

 A. Vision API

 B. BigQuery ML

 C. AutoML Vision

 D. Looker

An organization provides a loyalty program for its customers. It recently partnered with other
businesses so that customers can get loyalty points at a range of other stores.
Why should the organization use application programming interfaces (APIs)?

 A. To migrate all partner data for disaster recovery

 B. To analyze and publish loyalty program statistics to a dashboard

 C. To personalize recommendations for loyalty card users

 D. To connect third-party systems to ensure up-to-date information

A travel agency wants to seamlessly share their social media content with partners.
What should the organization use?
  A. A NoSQL database

 B. Anthos Config Management

 C. The App Engine standard environment

 D. An application programming interface (API)

How do out-of-the-box APIs make artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible
for all Google Cloud customers?

 A. They don't require technical specialists.

 B. They don't require data input and validation.

 C. They require fewer security permissions.

 D. They all require custom training models.

An organization needs to migrate specialized workloads to the cloud while maintaining their
existing complex licensing and architecture.
What Google Cloud solution should the organization use?

 A. Compute Engine

 B. Bare Metal Solution

 C. Cloud Run

 D. Cloud Functions

An organization finds that the amount of cash in their vending machines doesn't match the
value of items sold. They have decided to upgrade their vending machines with cloud-based
mobile payment systems.
How could the organization benefit from this upgrade?

 A. They could relax data access permissions.

 B. They could reduce their error budget overspend.

 C. They could improve their perimeter security.

 D. They could view data history to see transactions.

A food delivery service needs access to real-time menu information from all partner
restaurants. They also need to share customer order information with the restaurants in real
time.
What should the organization use?

 A. Site reliability engineering (SRE)

 B. An application programming interface (API)

 C. A customized machine learning model

 D. A multi-regional database

An organization is planning to create many new applications and needs a system for managing
and orchestrating their containers.
Why should they use Google Kubernetes Engine?

 A. It enables rapid application deployment and testing.

 B. It optimizes virtual machine performance.

 C. It connects legacy systems to an application.

 D. It provides pre-written source code for application development.

How does Google Cloud enable customers to leverage the power of artificial intelligence and
machine learning?

 A. With scalable on-premises tensor processing units

 B. With APIs and tools for users at different levels of expertise

 C. With affordable and scalable quantum computing

 D. With machine learning models that always require custom training

An online retail organization wants to optimize their service.

What is an example of unstructured data that they can use to make decisions?

 A. Customer survey comments Most Voted

 B. Seller location coordinates

  C. Product sales trends

 D. Warehouse inventory records

An organization's public cloud provider failed to meet their SLA of 99.99% availability.
What is the potential impact on the organization?

 A. The organization risks using up their error budget.

 B. Renegotiation of the SLA to put less emphasis on uptime could be necessary.

 C. Unexpected downtime could risk the loss of customers.

 D. All data stored in their database could be unexpectedly lost.

An organization needs to train a machine learning model to categorize photographs.

Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

 A. Video Intelligence API

 B. AutoML Vision

 C. BigQuery ML

 D. Looker

A multinational organization has decided to use public cloud services to modernize their IT
infrastructure.
What is one benefit of doing this?

 A. They can perform hardware maintenance outside of normal business hours.

 B. They can expect 100% service availability in all regions.

 C. Built-in security is no longer required during data migrations.

 D. Access to data and computer resources is not tied to a geographical location.

An organization meets their service level objective (SLO) of 99.999% (`five nines`).
How much downtime do their end users experience per year?

 A. 5 minutes
  B. 500 minutes

 C. 5 hours

 D. 5 days

An organization wants to introduce a new image recognition login system.

What should the organization do to follow SRE principles?

 A. Roll out the new system to a subset of employees to test it out.

 B. Roll out the new system to all employees to collect as much data as possible.

 C. Avoid rolling out the new system because it may have security flaws.

 D. Avoid rolling out the new system because it may violate privacy policy.

What does Cloud Debugger help an organization do?

 A. Implement code updates in real time without affecting the service level objective
(SLO).

 B. Inspect source code in real time without affecting user downtime.

 C. Manage code and accelerate application development.

 D. Analyze live source code during user downtime.

How can a streaming service meet global compliance requirements using the cloud?

 A. By automatically encrypting personally identifiable information Most Voted

 B. By obtaining a business license to operate in a new market

 C. By allowing users to disable two-factor authentication

 D. By adhering only to data polices of the country in which the head office is registered

An organization wants full control of their virtual machine infrastructure for a custom home-
grown application with a product that autoscales and automatically updates.
Which Google Cloud product or solution should the organization use?
  A. Cloud Build

 B. Cloud Run

 C. Compute Engine Most Voted

 D. App Engine

An organization wants to build an entirely new infrastructure and applications in the cloud.
Which application modernization approach should the organization use?

 A. Move the application to the cloud, and then change it.

 B. Change their application, and then move it to the cloud.

 C. Invent in greenfield.

 D. Invent in brownfield.

An organization wants to upskill their IT staff.

How can they do this in a transformational way?

 A. Prioritize training current employees instead of hiring new recruits with cloud
experience.

 B. Prioritize giving privileged access to third-party partners and contractors to fill IT

knowledge gaps.

 C. Create a culture of self-motivated, isolated learning with official training materials.

 D. Create a culture of continuous peer-to-peer learning with official training materials.

Several departments in an organization are working together on a project. The organization

wants to customize access to resources for each department.
What is the quickest and most efficient way to achieve this?

 A. By mapping IAM roles to job functions for each department Most Voted

 B. By assigning IAM primitive roles to each employee

 C. By applying ‫ג‬€least-privilege‫ג‬€ to roles for each employee

 D. By creating a single shared service account for all departments

An organization notices that some of their cloud expenditures are too high.
What should the organization do to control costs?

 A. Streamline the hardware procurement process to reduce costs.

 B. Share cost views with the departments to establish more accountability.

 C. Change the cost model from operational expenditure to capital expenditure.

 D. Ensure that all could resources are tagged with a single tag

What is monitoring within the context of cloud operations?

 A. Observing cloud expenditure in real time to ensure that budgets are not exceeded

 B. Collecting predefined and custom metrics from applications and infrastructure

 C. Tracking user activities to guarantee compliance with privacy regulations

 D. Tracing user location to document regional access and utilization

An organization wants to create a new application in the cloud to replace an existing on-
premises application.
Which application modernization approach should the organization use?

 A. Move the application to the cloud, and then change it.

 B. Change their application, and then move it to the cloud.

 C. Invent in greenfield.

 D. Invent in brownfield. Most Voted

Why should an organization consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) when moving from on-
premises to the cloud?

 A. To evaluate error budget

 B. To understand service level availability

 C. To evaluate return on investment

 D. To calculate required compute power

How does Google Cloud ensure that customer data remains secure and private when at rest?

 A. By aggregating training data for customers within each industry

 B. By automatically locking files containing suspicious code

 C. By auditing platform privacy practices against industry standards

 D. By providing privacy reviews for critical customer applications

An organization's developers are growing increasingly frustrated by the limitations of their on-
premises infrastructure.
How would they benefit from leveraging cloud technology?

 A. They can expect 100% service availability.

 B. They can avoid the limitations of serverless computing.

 C. They can have new tools to innovate and optimize resource usage. Most Voted

 D. They can optimize maintenance for their on-premises infrastructure.

An organization wants a cost-effective relational database.

Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?

 A. Cloud Storage

 B. BigQuery

 C. Cloud SQL

 D. Dataflow

An organization is altering their gaming product so that it is compatible with cloud technology.
What can they expect when moving from traditional technology to cloud technology?

 A. No change to existing responsibilities

 B. A shift toward OpEx

 C. A shift toward using structured data

 D. Increased hardware maintenance

When an organization adopts cloud technology, how does their total cost of ownership (TCO)
shift?

 A. Away from cost management toward capital expenditure

 B. Away from operational expenditure toward cost management

 C. Away from capital expenditure toward operational expenditure

 D. Away from operational expenditure toward capital expenditure

Which policy helps Google Cloud keep customer data private?

 A. Google tests the service availability of customer applications.

 B. Google does not use customer data for advertising purposes.

 C. Google migrates customer data to an offline server when a threat is detected.

 D. Google does not allow customers to change encryption keys.

A cloud-native organization is not meeting their service level objective (SLO) but has not
exhausted their error budget.
What should the organization prioritize?

 A. Innovation to improve user experience

 B. Hardware reliability to improve availability

 C. Stability to avoid prolonged user downtime

 D. Speed to release new features

An organization is moving away from an on-premises infrastructure. Instead, they want to

create, access, and share information virtually in the cloud.
What should the organization consider?

 A. Built-in security when moving their data to the cloud Most Voted

 B. Replacing their perimeter security with data encryption keys

 C. Optimizing cost-management with a capital expenditure model

  D. Increased hardware capacity when moving their data to the cloud

An organization has an on-premises IT infrastructure. Their customer-facing application

repeatedly fails during peak usage.
What could be causing this issue?

 A. A serverless compute function struggles to scale.

 B. The application contains unclean data.

 C. They don't have enough servers to meet the demand.

 D. The application is only configurable on-premises.

What is artificial intelligence?

 A. Any system that ingests data in real time

 B. Any system that automatically structures data

 C. Any system capable of a task that requires smart analytics to generate predictions

 D. Any system capable of a task that normally requires human cognition

What does Cloud Logging help an organization do?

 A. Analyze live source code and log code updates.

 B. Deploy infrastructure as code.

 C. Analyze logs and accelerate application troubleshooting.

 D. Manage storage of custom VM images.

How is privacy defined in the context of cloud technology?

 A. Restrictions on data access and sharing Most Voted

 B. Procedures to authenticate user identity

 C. Susceptibility to data breaches and cyber attacks

 D. Compliance with regulatory standards

An organization wants to write and run small pieces of code in a serverless way that respond to
events like huge discounts.
Which Google Cloud compute solution should the organization use?

 A. Google Kubernetes Engine

 B. Cloud Functions

 C. Bare Metal Solution

 D. Compute Engine

An organization wants to search hundreds of scanned documents for key information like
dates, names, and other specific words.
Why should the organization use application programming interfaces (APIs)?

 A. To replace the scanned documents with an online survey

 B. To ingest data in real time and encrypt unmatched words

 C. To create digital versions of the documents and locate key information

 D. To transform the documents into unstructured data.

An organization needs a platform to create custom end-to-end artificial intelligence models.

Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

 A. Dataproc

 B. Compute Engine

 C. Recommendations AI

 D. Vertex AI Most Voted

An organization is training a machine learning model to make predictions.

What could improve the prediction accuracy of their model?

 A. An increase in storage capacity

 B. Higher network bandwidth

 C. An increase in training data Most Voted

  D. Faster CPU processors

What is an example of structured data that a healthcare facility stores in their system?

 A. X-ray images

 B. Surgery video recordings

 C. Blood pressure history Most Voted

 D. Physician-written notes

An organization wants to move from a tactical cloud adoption approach to a transformational

approach.
How should they change their cloud security?

 A. Provide staff identities using only Google Cloud authentication.

 B. Provide multiple layers of network security using a zero-trust model.

 C. Emphasize strong perimeter security and trust in their private network.

 D. Emphasize three main Identity Access Management roles: owner, editor, and viewer.

Your organization consists of many teams. Each team has many Google Cloud projects. Your
organization wants to simplify the management of identity and access policies for these
projects. How can you group these projects to meet this goal?

Assign labels based on the virtual machines that are part of each team‫ג‬€™s projects

Your organization recently migrated its compute workloads to Google Cloud. You want these
workloads in Google Cloud to privately and securely access your large volume of on-
premises data, and you also want to minimize latency. What should your organization do?

 Create a VPC between your on-premises data center and your Google resources

Your company needs to segment Google Cloud resources used by each team from the
others. The teams‫ג‬€™ efforts are changing frequently, and you need to reduce operational
risk and maintain cost visibility. Which approach does Google recommend?
One project per team.